1. Cultural References to Julius Caesar

2. Julius Caesar & Media The Ides of March The Fault in our Stars
“The ideas of March” refers to the 15th of March, which is the day that a soothsayer warns Caesar to “beware.” The prophecy comes true when Caesars fellow Romans assassinate him for political reasons.
The Fault in our Stars
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars”
The story is narrated by a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she subsequently meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Augustus Waters

3. Mean Girls (film) Betrayal among friends
Plot to destroy “dictator” (Regina George)
Themes of power hierarchy, power, tact

4. The Hunger Games (film & book series)
For those of you who have read the book or seen the film, how many of these characters from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar sound familiar?
Varro, Clitus, Claudius, Strato, Lucius, Dardanius
Marcus Brutus
Caius Cassius
Pindarus
Casca,
Calpurnia
Trebonius, Ligarius, Decius Brutus, Metellus Cimber
Portia
Flavius and Marullus
Artemidorus
Julius Caesar
NOTE: Romans are sometimes referred to as “tribunes” and Shakespeare’s drama was based on a historical account written by Plutarch
Cinna
Octavius Caesar, Marcus Antonius, M. Aemilius Lepidus
Lucilius, Titinius, Messala, Young Cato, Volumnius,
Cicero, Publius, Popilius Lena

5. Caesar & Speech
“It was Greek to me”
“Great Caesar’s Ghost”

6. Even More References to Caesar!